[6bone] Reverse lookup

[Jean Théry]

BEGIN, Thomas wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm testing DNS over IPv6 on a testbed and I'm confronted to an issue.
>
> Here is my configuration: I'm working on a Red Hat Distribution (8.0)
> with Bind 9.2.1.9
>
> I've set up configuration files and the forward lookup works over
> IPv4 and IPv6 but the reverse lookup is only working with IPv4.
>
> (fec0:0:0:1::2 is one of the site-local addresses of my machine (DNS
> server)) e.g. host fec0:0:0:1::2 gives me:
> Host \[xFEC00000000000010000000000000002].ip6.arpa not found:
> 2(serverfail)
>
> First I realized that even if I tried to use ip6.int suffix in the
> configuration files, the message error keeps the same - Host
> \[xFEC00000000000010000000000000002].ip6.arpa not found:
> 2(serverfail) !!!
>
> Secondly, by sniffing with ethereal the packets, I've seen that the
> query is well sent to the computer (loop back) but no response is
> given and then computer tries to ask root DNS...
>
> I'm not out of idea, may be one of you can help me ...
>
> I post my config files.
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bitstring format is not used at this time, you must prefer the nibble
format, it works fine.

Cordialy,

Jean Théry
Administration Réseaux, Systèmes & Hosting
Olympus-Zone
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